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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. 



Photo from life by S. P. Brownell. 

 WATCHING MY MOVEMENTS. 



Grouse as to be able to take it in my hands. But it was only after 

 many patient attempts to approach the bird that I was permitted to ac- 

 complish this. One day last spring, while I was driving through a cedar 

 swamp, I saw a Ruffed Grouse cross the road and run into the woods. 

 As it seemed less wild than these birds usually are, I took my camera 

 from the carriage, and hoping to obtain a snap-shot of it, I chased it 

 some distance through the woods. But although the grouse did not 

 fly, it succeeded in keeping out of the range of a camera shot. This 

 was the beginning of my acquaintance with the Grouse, and it occurred 

 to me at the time that one of the parties was not anxious for its con- 

 tinuance. 



